We're giving away a $50 AMEX gift card to one lucky winner! Read on for your chance to win, and to find out how you can win $100 from our friends at Fatwallet. Make sure you enter by 6AM CT on Feb. 9th!
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Making your list and checking it twice...and realizing you're not finished? We've all been there. Here's a handy roundup of Holiday Shipping Deadlines to help you get your presents under the tree before the big man comes down the chimney.
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Seeking answers to who, what, when, where and why we shop the Black Friday sales, this year BFAds farmed out 15 questions to consumers that said they will present and accounted for come Friday November 25…or is was Thursday November 24? Or earlier? More than 8 in 10 said they will definitely shop for Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving! What kind of Black Friday deals are they most excited about? Which stores do they plan to visit and how much will they spend? Which holiday shopping event ranks highest for having the best prices? Would Donald Trump be a more frugal Black Friday shopper than Hillary Clinton? Let's find out…
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A whopping 83% of those looking for Black Friday deals this year will be doing so on Thanksgiving and 56% will start shopping on Thanksgiving morning, if not earlier. Nearly 4 in 10 will use Black Friday sites to get the majority of sales intel. This is in sharp contrast to the nearly 4 in 10 that scoured newspaper ads for the same info 4 years ago, as was featured in Mashable in 2012. Back then, 44% said holiday gifts were the primary reason for shopping Black Friday sales while this year more than 6 in 10 said their primary reason was to seek out low prices. Huh…it appears many of us will be shopping for ourselves!
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BFAds.net aims to serve one purpose: to help better your Black Friday experience. While the newspaper circulars are not released until a couple days before Black Friday, the ads are often available on the internet weeks in advance. BFAds acts as a compilation portal: scouring the web for the latest Black Friday information and organizing it all into a readily available database. BFAds.net additionally offers many features to its visitors, including community message boards, comprehensive sales and product information, links to available in-store coupons and Black Friday item rebates. We hope you enjoy the site.

Here's a comprehensive list of Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2016 store hours! Where possible we have also included online sale information. We'll update this with more information as we receive it.
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Four lucky winners will receive a $50 Amazon gift card! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on October 7th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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Several merchants have released their Top Toy Lists for 2016! These don't have any special discounts just yet, but they are a great resource for those of you who want to stay on top of toy shopping trends this holiday season. In addition, the items that span multiple top toy lists will usually be the first to be offered at doorbuster prices.
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We bring you the “Top 10 Black Friday Predictions” which point to a record number of deals and doorbusters for the 2016 holiday shopping season. Savvy shoppers should be on the lookout for more discounted 4K TVs than last year, as well as super cheap video games, xbox One bundles under $200 and some of the lowest prices of the year on smart home devices. BFAds brings you the early Black Friday forecast in this fun infographic…share it with your friends!
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This year, Thanksgiving weekend shoppers will have access to more than 52,000 Black Friday Deals (49,000 in 2015), including 15,000 deals under $20 each. We expect a record of more than 7,000 Black Friday Doorbusters with more available online and via mobile devices than ever before. Read on for our predictions regarding this year's hottest Black Friday items.
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One lucky winner will receive a $100 Amazon gift card! The giveaway ends at 5PM Central Time on September 6th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck and have a save Labor Day!
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One lucky winner will receive $200 in AmEx gift cards! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on July 12th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a $200 Amazon gift card! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on May 9th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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Season 6 of Game of Thrones premieres tonight at 9PM EDT. For those of us who don't have cable, luckily there's still a way to binge-watch the rise and fall of houses Stark, Lannister, and all the rest.
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One lucky winner will receive a $100 Amazon gift card! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on April 22nd, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a $200 Amazon gift card! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on April 18th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a $100 Amazon gift card! We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on April 4th, so make sure to get your entries in before then! Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a $200 Amazon gift card!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on March 28th, so make sure to get your entries in before then!
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit & $25 Papa John's gift card!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on Pi Day (3/14), so make sure to get your entries in before then!
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted. Good luck!
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One lucky winner will receive a $200 Amazon Gift Card!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on March 17th, so make sure to get your entries in before then.
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted!
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One lucky winner will receive a $250 Walmart Gift Card!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on February 29th, so make sure to get your entries in before then.
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted!
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One lucky winner will receive a Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and a snazzy $100 Amazon Gift Card!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on February 16th, so make sure to get your entries in before then.
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted!
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One lucky winner will receive a 1-Year Amazon Prime Membership, along with a snazzy $100 Amazon Gift Card to kick off their shopping spree!
We'll draw the winner at 5PM Central Time on February 8th, so make sure to get your entries in before then.
Please remember that submissions via email are not accepted! Good luck, and may the best team win!
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Look no further for your definitive list of Thanksgiving & Black Friday store hours! We'll keep this list fresh throughout the rest of the shopping season and let you know when anything is updated or changes are made.
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Today, October 21st, 2015 is the day that Marty McFly travels to from 1985 in the 80's classic Back To The Future Part II. Fans all over are celebrating. Most people are focused on what the movie got right about "the future" of 2015. This got us wondering: what will 2045, and it's Black Friday and Cyber Monday, look like?
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Almost as important as the deal prices themselves, making sure you know how to navigate the Black Friday and Cyber Monday landscape will be the key to success for 2015. Using our experience from years past, we let you know what to expect from this Black Friday 2015 season.
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A handful of States in the US participate in Back To School Tax Free Weekends. They aren't all necessarily a weekend long, but knowing when to save on taxes is an important part of your Back To School shopping strategy. In this Back To School shopping guide, we will let you know which States participate, when they participate, and what the rules are for Back to School Tax Free Weekend 2015.
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The 4th of July is this Saturday, but there are already sales you can shop. Our Deal Hunters have collected the best 4th of July sales with the best 4th of July deals into one place, so you can score some great prices, and then get back to planning your Independence Day BBQ.
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While Black Friday is our raison d'être, we can't pass up a good deal or sale no matter when in the year it occurs. Memorial day sales tend to be some of the better annual sales, so we have collected the best of those sales in one place, for your convenience.

This week is teacher appreciation week, so we've tried to collect all of the best freebies and discounts in one place, to thank our teachers. It runs from today until the 8th, but May 5th is Teacher Appreciation Day, and as a way to thank teachers, some business are giving away freebies and discounts.

Tis the season to file your 2014 Taxes, and we're here to help you clear the way for a tax return that you can make the most of! Tax deals are happening all over the internet right now, but they will start to fade away the closer we get to April 15th.

Below are our archived articles from 2014:

You want your gifts delivered in time for the holidays, right? Read on to learn about National Free Shipping Day, and the cut off dates for guaranteed delivery by Christmas. We also let you know some major retailers' free shipping requirements.

We have compiled a huge list of store opening times to help you breeze through your Black Friday shopping! Please note that your local stores may choose to open at times other than the official listed hours. So be ready, and happy shopping!
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One of the features of our site that we are most proud of is the Shopping List or, as we like to call it, the #BFBattlePlan. Read on for an explanation of how you can use it to make your gift shopping easier than ever!
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We've heard a lot of arguments over the last year regarding the value of having an Amazon Prime membership. This year, Amazon Prime members have yet another reason to feel more special than everyone else -and of course we've got suggestions on how you can make the most of it for your Black Friday strategy.
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As we saw last year, the trend of opening Black Friday sales earlier and earlier will continue into 2014. Several stores have already confirmed their Black Friday events are starting earlier than Friday, November 28th.
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Every year, we get a lot of questions regarding Black Friday layaway policies at individual stores. This article provides the Layaway policies and procedures (as well as links to each store's website for clarification) at Wal-Mart, Kmart, Toys 'R' Us, Sears, and Best Buy.
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After the perfect storm of last-minute orders and inclement weather that complicated holiday shipping for retailers last year, many stores are prepping for Black Friday 2014 by buffing up their operations. But will it be enough to handle the increased number of shoppers fulfilling their gift lists online?
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At our core, as Americans, we care very deeply about the principal of the thing. When I ran across this article discussing how my online dollar might not be going as far as my in person dollar at Wal-Mart on school supplies, my first reaction was to check the details.
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The Day after Thanksgiving, now more commonly known as Black Friday, is the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season and one of the largest sales days of the year. But, given the [negative] connotations associated with “black” events, why on Earth would retailers decide to call such an important day “Black Friday?”
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As football fans everywhere wait to see which teams will face off in February, we're changing up our playbook to include Black Friday price comparisons versus today's Hot Deals. We're also giving away a 42" LED HDTV to one lucky winner on our Facebook page. How would you like to watch the big game on that?
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Below are our archived articles from 2013:

As the LED-lighted 2014 New Year’s Eve ball dropped on Times Square January 1st, signaling the start of a brand new year, the incandescent lightbulb was also dropped. Some people are unhappy about the change because of the differences in initial cost and color rendering between the old and new lighting options. Are you prepared for the changes, or will you be hoarding old-school lightbulbs in an attempt to escape progress?
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The Day after Thanksgiving, now more commonly known as Black Friday, is the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season and one of the largest sales days of the year. But, given the [negative] connotations associated with “black” events, why on Earth would retailers decide to call such an important day “Black Friday?”
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The holiday season is almost here, which means you'll probably soon be heading to stores to purchase gifts for your family and friends. Before you start making your list and checking it twice, read our overview of both the benefits and disadvantages of using a store credit card for holiday shopping.
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